Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: {non sequitur/bad humor} was: Why not allow empty code blocks? Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2016 18:01:20 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <579cbded$0$1605$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <758a1961-00bc-4b1c-834b-a7deca94d029@googlegroups.com> <57A0763F.7050809@rece.vub.ac.be> <57A1AAC0.2030900@rece.vub.ac.be> <7b6caa1c-890a-4104-be7e-f8e279e34bb0@googlegroups.com> <87fuqmjbpz.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de U/qU/ivYIfXZsYHIjO7bMgqBTI5DrXRu2G6R33zEayxg== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.005 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:code': 0.07; 'macros': 0.09; 'message-id:@4ax.com': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:Why': 0.09; 'subject:not': 0.11; 'wed,': 0.15; '2016': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'subject:allow': 0.16; 'subject:non': 0.16; 'url:home': 0.18; 'language': 0.19; 'aug': 0.20; 'programming': 0.22; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'operators': 0.29; 'subject:/': 0.30; 'maybe': 0.33; 'skip:> 10': 0.35; 'there': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.37; 'enough': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'skip:u 10': 0.61; 'subject:} ': 0.84; 'dennis': 0.91; 'subject:{': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: X-Mailman-Original-References: <579cbded$0$1605$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <758a1961-00bc-4b1c-834b-a7deca94d029@googlegroups.com> <57A0763F.7050809@rece.vub.ac.be> <57A1AAC0.2030900@rece.vub.ac.be> <7b6caa1c-890a-4104-be7e-f8e279e34bb0@googlegroups.com> <87fuqmjbpz.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:112306 On Wed, 03 Aug 2016 15:09:12 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa declaimed the following: >I don't know if there's enough Scheme activity out there to call it a >culture. > >As far as underbellies go, Scheme macros and operators are not >first-class. The Kernel programming language () >addresses this flaw. > Cultures are what you find in Petri dishes... and maybe slimy underbellies... -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/